Sounds like we aren’t the only ones that think SaaS is model that will have a profound impact on the video and broader security spaces.
Our own Rob Hagens spoke on the topic at TechSec this week and was joined by a number of other industry leaders in making the case for SaaS. Security Systems News [...]
NPR had a very interesting episode today about A New Way To Patrol The Texas Border The basic idea is that folks who are so inclined can log onto a web site and watch video over the Internet of certain border crossings. If they see suspicious behavior, they can press a button on the page [...]
In a prior post, I asked you to ponder the “Let’s Make a Deal” problem. For those of you who thought it through and answered correctly (without the Google-crutch), congratulations to you! Perhaps your quick mind could make you some money at the casinos. My simple explanation would be as follows:
You select door #1. The probability that [...]
A couple weeks ago, I watched the movie 21. The film’s protagonist, Ben Campbell, is a student at MIT. Even though MIT is filled with intelligent people, Ben stands out. In fact, his intellectual prowess is so impressive that he is recruited by a professor to join an exclusive club. The club’s weekend activities? Counting cards in Las Vegas.
In [...]
Most video providers that pitch integration with point of sale are selling a promise that they can’t or don’t deliver. The promise is simple – the system can show you the video associated with any transaction you want across your company. Look up any product, any employee, any amount and simply click on the transaction [...]
One of the challenges in being an innovator in an industry that has a long established history is that the majority of people you deal with are by definition “Old School” relative to your solution. If you define Old School without a negative connotation it means doing something the way you’ve always done things b/c [...]
Early in 2008, our company was in the process of re-casting our marketing efforts. New logo, new tag-line, updated website, etc.
While discussing our tag-line, I recall mentioning to a colleague that every company I could think of had a tag-line, except Starbucks. In fact, I also noted that they rarely, if ever, advertise. I certainly don’t [...]
The Unix Epoch which is the standard of time for unix (linux) systems all over the known universe will have a unique moment in a few days. The measure of time on a linux system is in seconds since the epoch, which was January 1, 1970, UTC. Since the measure is simply the number of [...]
When I hear talk about the virtues of “Software Only” video systems, I kinda think, huh? Since when is a camera made of software? I think what is really being talked about are the virtues of a multi-vendor solution as opposed to a single vendor solution.
Multivendor network video systems are a great direction and [...]
In the telecom engineering world a huge focus area is on having inexpensive, robust devices out at the edge of the network which could be 100% remotely managed using automated processes. All the edge devices (say a router that is at a customer’s location) must have a very consistent and methodical way of being configured [...]
